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anarchist book fair zagreb 26.-28. march 2010

Bookfair - come and check the books of different publishers, free materials from various groups,
newspapers, magazines... See list of participants.

16:30
[Mama, Preradoviceva 18]

Presentation of Center for Anarchist Studies

17:30
[Mama, Preradoviceva 18]

New strategies of social control

Fortress Europe is making it’s walls stronger. New agrements and institutions are providing new posibilites for police networking, while production of fear adn tensions results with demands for “more secutrity” and more consent for new mesures of surveillance and control.
Stronger and stronger waves of capitalist crisis, criminalisation of social movements and direct actions, and so called “war against terrorism” are hiting shores of “outer borders” of EU on Balkan, which is under pressure of it’s own crisis, history, fears and divisions.
Risks for functioning of capital and state are minimalizing with introduction of new restrictive laws, “proactive” mesures, predictions of new threats, new police tactics and modern technology, while they create consent for this kind of controled environment and new “protector” with production of fear from violence, criminal, immigrants, extremism and terrorism.

19:00
[cinema Europa, Varsavska 3]

Academic approach to anarchism

Academism, as a particular way of approaching and criticizing the world around itself, didn’t bypass the methods of social organizing or non organizing, and thus also the anarchist theory and practice, which, through it’s basic principles, demands for abolishing of university and academic approach, i.e. it’s way of functioning and acting. This did not stop many anarchists from becoming a part of that group, and so empower it’s elitist and authoritarian discourse which exists as the sole reality / dimension understood by the academic community. A question comes to mind; what are the limits of the academic analysis of anarchism, and could that approach be of any use in analysis of the society, if it came out of the authoritative system whose bearer it is, and because of the same reason is also limited in its analysing same as in its repeal, as it really is what makes its elitist position possible?
Also, in this discussion, anti-intellectualism and hyper-activism, which are widely spread in anarchist movement, should be taken into consideration and be discussed.
Some reading proposals include (send any suggestions to our e-mail): Peter Gelderloos: The Difference between Anarchy and the Academy

Bookfair moves to the square, so the books are available during rush hour… In case of bad weather fair moves back inside in cinema Europa, Varsavska 3.

15:00 – 20:00
[cinema Europa, Varsavska 3]

Bookfair moves back inside…

13:00
[knjiznica Bogdana Ogrizovica, Preradoviceva 5]

Presentation of book Miloš Krpan: Izabrani spisi

Publishing house DAF will present it’s new book Selected Writings by Miloš Krpan, selection of texts written hunder years ago, which represent rare insight in history of active political life in Croatia and presents history of anarchism and interest in anarchist ideas.
It is important to note that Krpan initiated idea to establish anarchist commune in village Dubovik, next to Slavonski Brod.

16:30
[Zelena akcija, Frankopanska 1]

Presentation of books Anarchism – from ideas of Bakunin to fall of Soviet state and Russian Anarchism

Books Anarchism – from ideas of Bakunin to fall of Soviet state and Russian Anarchism will be presented by dr. Milorad Đoković, author of both titles. Book Anarchism covers anarchist ideas and develpoment from it’s eraly days until present time. Bakunin takes central place in th book about who authro writes based on Russian sources. Through the book author confronts anarchism with liberalism and marxism, finish it with possibilites of anarchism and it’s future.
Russian Anarchism covers history and activites of anarchist movement before and after October revolution.

17:30
[Zelena akcija, Frankopanska 1]

Contemporary Anarchist Press in Czech republic

18:00
[Zelena akcija, Frankopanska 1]

Squat Wars

A new short documentary on a Prague squatting scene, done in a DIY way and released under Creative Commons license, allowing free screening and sharing.
Film is focused on history of two most known Czech squats, Ladronka (evicted in 2000) and Milada (evicted last summer) plus predecessor of the latter, squat Zenklovka. The history is mapped through interviews with former inhabitants and archive materials (photos, videos).
Author of the documentary announced that he wouldn’t release it for the internet for a couple of weeks or months. He would only do public screenings in an attempt to make people come together, discuss and maybe meet new people with similar ideas instead of consuming a movie in atomized anonymity in front of computer screen.
The movie is provided with English subtitles and is 27 minutes long.
You can see trailer here.

19:00
[cinema Europa, Varsavska 3]

Strategies of social conflicts

When social conflicts, strategies and tactics of resistance to government repression are discussed, discussion of violent or non violent tactics usage is almost inevitable. Although this discussion has lately become solved, by claiming the right of selecting different tactics, which solved the problem of reaching the consensus of tactics selecting, in practice there’s still a great sensibility when violent methods of resistance are being used. Even if we neglect the reasoning in binary oppositions violence / non violence, the problem about violence as a method still remains very baffling. It could be seen that when resisting the repression, anarchists often refuse to use the methods that system finds radical in order not to provoke even larger repression, and thus perform a kind of auto-repression, and so neutralize their own activity. On the other hand, there are many examples lately in which people, who do not identify themselves with anarchism or the anarchist movement, seem to have no problem in radicalizing their own acting in fight against the repression. This indicates a few things; severity of extremely negative semantic field of the therm violence, difficulty of drawing the line between violence and non violence, influence of the pacifist ideology and importance of context within which we are acting. Discussion on strategies of social conflicts should take into consideration strategies of the institutionalised repression and institutionalised acting with the aim of destroying any resistance movement. Only in this wider context do the particular strategies gain or lose sense and purpose. The fact is that the basic priority of the governmental institution is to maintain the so called normal condition and obstruct any acting that could disturb that condition, and it’s going so far that even considering resistance to repression and desire for change would be enough for extension of the institutional repression. Then, the weight of discussion is pulled away from violent or non violent methods to the oppositions of legal / illegal, normal / abnormal…
What does selection of social struggles strategies mean and what opportunities do we have? Where does the need for the auto-repression come from, and what really are motives for resisting the repression? Which ideologies and experiences did influence particular attitudes towards different methods of resistance? These are just some of the questions we’d like to open with this discussion. Some literature proposals include: Peter Gelderloos: How Nonviolence Protects the State, Boston: South End Press, 2007. (for those based in Zagreb: available in infoshop Roko i Cicibela); Uri Gordon: Peace, Love and Petrol Bombs; Anarchism and Violence revisited in Anarchy Alive, Pluto Press, London, 2008.; Ward Churchill: Pacifism as Pathology

Sunday 28th March 2010

10:00 – 15:00
[cinema Europa, Varsavska 3]

Bookfair – come and have coffee or tea, look for the book you missed the previous days, and spend your sunday morning in a pleasant company… . That would be the closure of the 6th Anarchist bookfair.

news from nowhere

24/5/11___ CRNI KREČ radio, tonight on hate speech coming from the tops of religious communities talking to youth in religion classes, a look on reality in BiH; interview with PASI; DIY punk ... crni krec (tuesdays from 7pm) recommended!
12/4/11___ today i listened to crni krec (tuesdays from 7pm) recommended!
02/3/11___ Zoran Trklja (procedura/ poems+...)+background noise+ZRIKaVCI (Grillentrash), both from Belgrade will appear in concert in Schnorrstr.23, Dachboden on Thursday 17.3.11 8pm
7/10/1/11 ___ Lately i have been reading a book about the eastern german punk legend Schleimkeim and somehow i cant resist, even though they are not really comparable, but comparable in terms of tragic death and general tragedy and provincial anarchism, so here it is: Schleimkeim and Satan Panonski about Money...
http://www.archive.org/download/badmaps13/08.Dm.mp3wir sind die herrscher und ihr seid die sklaven der d-mark, hi hi, gott hab sie selig...sowie Geldschein sein Geldschein sein...http://www.archive.org/download/badmaps14/SchleimKeim-NichtsGewonnenNichtsVerlorenvol.2lp-08-Geldschein.mp3
4/1/11 ___ someone from a fanzine asked me to write something about satan panonski but i dont feel so qualifiedededed zonic and a song by The boxhamsters, prost neujaur jr.http://www.archive.org/download/badmaps10/06.prostNeujahrJr..mp3
12/10/10 ___ report from Belgrade Pride Parade in automatic translation quality and a song by The Apostles, one of the first english queer anarcho-punks "Those who live by the Sword, will die by the Sword..."http://www.archive.org/download/badmaps0F/11-TheSword.mp3
13/07/10 ___ new publication, 'Anti-fascism and direct action' documentation from last QUEER BEOGRAD festival, held September 2008 in Belgrade.
30/06/10 ___ Crni KreČ, weekly radio show from Banja Luka (Hc,Punk&diy politics) Tuesdays 19:00 to 20:00 h pm
26/06/10 ___ zea, new singer of my beloved THE EX, is having a gig in KC rex, beograd (4th july), THE EX themselves also playing but in Llubljana and that might be to far away (on july 17th), The Ex & Zea concerts
24/06/10 ___ Legendary festival in Pula, Monteparadiso, the 18th, 5th to 7th August 2010. From my tape Unutrašnja emigracija will participate.
20/06/10 ___ Punčke are looking for gigs in germany for their tour in august. Help needed, if you can help send me an e-mail.Look at gig dates and plans..
31/05/10 ___ report from claws of saurtopia, second noise festival in zoro (leipzig) read review here.
14/05/10 ___ Bastards of Utopia, a new film about young people into anarchist activism in Zagreb from an ethnographic perspective, Interview with film-maker Maple Rasza. Sounded interesting to me.
08/05/10 ___ there will be a benefit party at Schnorrstr.23 (dachboden) on may 22nd, 8pm: ja hier
27/04/10 ___ there was a conference on jewish subculture and punk and its iconography at halle university: I was there...
31/03/10 ___ on saturday is a benefit in ludwigstr. 37 in halle for six serbian activists, who are in danger of being charged very heavily for a slight damage done by unknown protestors to the greek embassy in belgrade in september 2009. Saturday, 3rd April, Ludwigstr. 37 (Halle).
23/03/10 ___ starting friday 26th of march there will be another anarchist book fair in zagreb see what happens, also some thoughts about subculture and literature inspired by another book fair..
11/03/10 ___ some new...records
02/03/10 ___ there are two bands from beograd playing in leipzig soon, jaibo! (quite close to early us-hc-trashers like flag of democracy or bad brains) and let's grow (more like rkl) in zoro on tuesday 16th march, 10pm...
13/02/10 ___ Thousands of people gathered in Dresden Saturday to block for the first time an annual neo-Nazi march commemorating the Allied bombing of the German city during World War II. The neo-Nazis gathered outside the Neustadt railway station to mark the anniversary of devastating bombing raids, and were to stage a “funeral march” after listening to a series of speeches but more than 15,000 counter-protestors blocked the rally. see documenting summary.
26/01/10 ___ here is a zine that is also in english, on eastern european punk, based in brno (cz) and i like it drunk nach osten zine...
25/01/10 ___ i had some plans to visit "a je to" festival but failed due to coldness and difficulties to leave my dog somewhere. i found a new webzine "Burevestnik" on d.i.y., punk, activism based in belgrade, go there...
11/01/10 ___ Third festival of anarcho-punk in Sarajevo (A) je to 3 read programme
03/01/10 ___ large amounts of snow fell down on me today, while I was drinking a coffee in my garden. I noticed the barrel i use for receiving rain was completely frozen. I turned it upside down and out came an identical copy of the barrel, just ice. While I later gathered around the oven i noticed an interesting interview: Intervju with Iluzije Slobode fanzin (translation) in , helly cherry web zine.
26/12/09 ___ Also worth risking an ear: U Krugu Dvojice, which is broadcast every thursday from 7pm to 9pm on NRBG. Authors are Boris Vlastelica from Repetitor and Bojan Slačala from Belgrade band Stuttgart Online. listen to NRBG...
23/12/09 ___ I have just been listening to
Dežurni Kvirci on NRBG (web radio from Beograd). Dežurni Kvirci is broadcast every wednesday from 9pm to 11pm and i liked it though i dont understand any of the language. it sees itself as a gay straight alliance that looks on queer politics, pop culture, gossip and nicotine crisis and promises fun for the whole family... this week was funny garage rock that sounded like it came from stranger than paradise by j. jarmusch... listen to NRBG...
22/11/09 ___ Don Vito in China Read their tour diary
13/10/09 ___ this is linking to a m3u-radio-feature illustrating my history of 80s tape compilations blank tape radio hope it works (after opening player wait 10 seconds)...
10/10/09 ___ bernays propaganda from skopje played yesterday in leizig (zoro), it was great and i have their record "happiness machines" now, which is one of the best records i lately got (with lyrics in english and a booklet about civilisation and violence) i will hopefully review more extensively soon look where they play and buy their record.
06/10/09 ___ i was asked to transform the compilation into a radio broadcast on Radio Net1zen but i seem to be lazy...
06/10/09 ___ on thursday (october 8th) a great band from belgium is playing in beograd: Rene Biname at klub zica. i saw them in leipzig, trust me.
01/09/09 ___ next week (4.9.09) there is a celebration in our rehearsal room (garage, corner holbeinst./oeserst./leipzig) bands "rind" and "fat tony" will play and you are invited!
31/08/09 ___ if anyone of the bands included needs help with getting away from stupid myspace towards better solutions without advertisement terror, i could recomment wordpress and www.archive.org (as host for mp3s), if help is needed send me email...
10/08/09 ___ As there were some visitors from Beograd recently in my garden plot, there is hope now for some of the tapes to travel in their luggage to Beograd. Anyone interested in getting one, should send me an e-mail. (for the bands and writers included off cause for free)
02/08/09 ___ there was a great gig of one of the legends of fun punk in the place where the idea for visionerski transport was created from mud and beer: fliehende stürme in plathe.
15/07/09 ___ visit in skela revisited
23/06/09 ___ last weekend 'claws of saurtopia' festival took place in leipzig (zoro), mostly "math-core" noise bands, bands who play 23 times one chord, then make a break of 5 seconds length and then play another chord, but highly recommendable. also some electronic noise engineers mistreated their laptops. hope will happen again next year, then perhaps with bands from other countries than france, belgium, netherlands? (ex-yu?). claws of saurtopia on myspace
16/06/09 ___ chronological description of our journey on a raft along Sava
12/05/09 ___ look at layout version of zine (difficult to read)
07/05/09 ___ collected silence listen!
04/05/09 ___ Sombor (by Ana GreySheep from profit from poison zine) calling
04/05/09 ___ Eine Geschichte aus zusammengelegten Karten (Nora Wicke) (a story from cards laid out in rows)
04/05/09 ___ Blank tape - short history of the tape compilation here.
25/03/09 ___ Gas ist Spass - poem by Lena read ...
25/03/09 ___ 667 dinars - a poem by zoran trklija. read here. The author lives in Belgrade and writes also for blogs procedura and hrana.
24/03/09 ___ sunset for an old man - a story by vladan maksimovic. read here. The author lives in Panchevo and plays in the featured band endorfin.
23/03/09 ___ Satan Panonski was one of the most difficult legends of yugoslavian punk. more on his life read here.
07/02/09 ___Bernays Propaganda will leave Skopje for tour of europe starting march 6th concert with cut self not in belgrade, dont miss it
..29th of march they play in leipzig (zoro).. don vito (noise band from leipzig) are looking for gig dates in zagreb, belgrade, skopje, bukarest, plovdiv for their tour in june...
20/01/09 ___(A) je to festival in Sarajevo.
Second "(A) je to" (means "(A) it is") festival of anarcho-punk and subculture took place from january 15th to 17th in Sarajevo cinemas Bosna and 1. maj. It was opened with public actions a la food not bombs. There was presentation and discussion about film on the attacked queer festival in september, workshops, presentation of subcultural media/distibutions and concerts with bands Rapa Nui, Unutrašnja emigracija, Genetička kontrola and Hoću? Neću! On saturday played Život piše drame, Fek, Motherpig and Dislike. The festival was organised the second year by Anarhopank savez BiH.
report (English translation)
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